Science Sources
Search the database below for peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports documenting climate change trends. (Note: The database does not include studies on projected, or future change.) For studies that specifically identify the fingerprint of climate change on observed trends and events, visit Science Sources: Detection and Attribution.
| Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The fingerprint of human‐induced changes in the ocean's salinity and temperature fields | Geophysical Research Letters | David W. Pierce, Peter J. Gleckler, Tim P. Barnett, Benjamin D. Santer, Paul J. Durack | |
| Multimodel attribution of the Southern Hemisphere Hadley cell widening: Major role of ozone depletion | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Seung‐Ki Min, Seok‐Woo Son | |
| Attribution of cyclogenesis region sea surface temperature change to anthropogenic influence | Geophysical Research Letters | N. P. Gillett, P. A. Stott, B. D. Santer | |
| Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming | Nature Geoscience | Qinghua Ding, Eric J. Steig, David S. Battisti, Marcel Küttel | |
| Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California | Nature Climate Change | Daniel L. Swain, Baird Langenbrunner, J. David Neelin, Alex Hall | |
| Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions | BioScience | Raffa, Kenneth F., Aukema, Brian H., Bentz, Barbara J., Carroll, Allan L., Hicke, Jeffrey A., Turner, Monica G., Romme, William H. | |
| Detection of human influence on a new, validated 1500-year temperature reconstruction | AMS Journal of Climate | Gabriele C. Hegerl, Thomas J. Crowley, Myles Allen, William T. Hyde, Henry N. Pollack, Jason Smerdon, and Eduardo Zorita | |
| Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in mixed conifer forests in Yosemite National Park, USA | Forest Ecology and Management | ||
| Is there a signal of sea‐level rise in Chesapeake Bay salinity? | Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans | T. W. Hilton, R. G. Najjar, L. Zhong, M. Li | |
| Extracting a Climate Signal from 169 Glacier Records | Science | J. Oerlemans | |
| The Great 2006 Heat Wave over California and Nevada: Signal of an Increasing Trend | AMS Journal of Climate | Alexander Gershunov | |
| Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants | Nature | Terry L. Root, Jeff T. Price, Kimberly R. Hall, Stephen H. Schneider, Cynthia Rosenzweig, J. Alan Pounds | |
| A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems | Nature | Camille Parmesan, Gary Yohe | |
| Increasing solar heating of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, 1979–2005: Attribution and role in the ice‐albedo feedback | Geophysical Research Letters | Donald K. Perovich, Bonnie Light, Hajo Eicken, Kathleen F. Jones, Kay Runciman, Son V. Nghiem | |
| Detection and attribution of Atlantic salinity changes | Geophysical Research Letters | Peter A. Stott, Rowan T. Sutton, Doug M. Smith | |
| Models versus radiosondes in the free atmosphere: A new detection and attribution analysis of temperature | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | F. C. Lott, P. A. Stott, D. M. Mitchell, N. Christidis, N. P. Gillett, L. Haimberger, J. Perlwitz, P. W. Thorne | |
| Attribution of the present‐day total greenhouse effect | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Gavin A. Schmidt, Reto A. Ruedy, Ron L. Miller, Andy A. Lacis | |
| Attributing carbon changes in conterminous U.S. forests to disturbance and non-disturbance factors from 1901 to 2010 | Journal of Geophysical Research | Fangmin Zhang, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey, Shuanghe Shen, Weimin Ju, Liming. He | |
| Detection and attribution of global mean thermosteric sea level change | Geophysical Research Letters | Aimée B. A. Slangen, John A. Church, Xuebin Zhang, Didier Monselesan | |
| Attribution of extreme events in Arctic sea ice extent | AMS Journal of Climate | Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young |
